tnx Jeffrey, I'm checking it out at the moment.. I will give feedback as soon as I have.
But at quick look, it seems that the magaraid_sas is installed, but not loaded.. I'll dive further into it. i'll let it know.. tnx again.. this was helpfull.. :-) > Arno, > > I think I know what is going on here. Firmware-tools tries to find > devices in two ways: Dell update modules, and lspci. > > It looks like you might not have a dell driver installed for your > PERC 6. I am guessing this because the firmware-updates.log shows the > device name as: "01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios > Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)" If the Dell driver were installed, > firmware-tools would be able to talk to the PERC card through the > dell update module and get the dell name - PERC 6/i Integrated. > > Because firmware-tools only knows of the device through its PCI ID, > it does not know the current firmware version, and tries to apply the > update. > > When the dell update module is run, it doesn't find any devices to > update and returns no status: <?xml version="1.0" > encoding="UTF-8"?><SVMExecution > lang="en"><RebootRequired>0</RebootRequired></SVMExecution> > > You should have a 'megaraid_sas' dkms driver rpm available to you in > the dell repo. After installing that, firmware-tools should report > the current version and not suggest an upgrade is needed. > > Thanks, > Jeff Mendoza > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
